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| Collector: Renaldo Maduro |
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Most of the Hearst Museum’s Rajasthani collection was gathered by Renaldo (Ronald) Maduro (1942–88), an anthropologist, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. During the 1960s, Maduro spent two summers conducting ethnographic research in Mexico, and one year studying at an Indian university. During his dissertation research in Rajasthan (an 18-month period in 1968–70) Maduro, assisted by his wife Eugenia Perez, made an artifact collection of about 220 items for the Hearst Museum. In 1971, Renaldo Maduro was awarded a Ph.D. in anthropology from UC Berkeley for his dissertation on “Artistic Creativity in a Brahmin Painter Community, Rajasthan, India,” published in 1976. An amateur painter and potter, he summarized his Indian research as the “integration of psychology, art, and anthropology.” After obtaining his degree, Maduro largely left aesthetic studies to focus on psychology. At his death he was Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychology at the Langley Porter Institute, UC San Francisco, and member of the C. G. Jung Institute, San Francisco.
Renaldo Maduro looking at paintings with his wife, Eugenia Perez (R), and a painter (L)
Photographer unknown, 1969–70
Renaldo Maduro
Photo by Eugenia Perez, 1969–70
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